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BANGKOK — Thailand’s junta has commandeered every TV channel for round-the-clock broadcasts of dour announcements and patriotic hymns. The public’s verdict: DJ, please c...

Syrian death toll on the rise BEIRUT — A mortar shell struck a large tent in southern Syria where supporters of President Bashar Assad had gathered for election campaigni...

Most victims are women, children JOS, Nigeria — Rescue workers armed with body bags today dug into the rubble of buildings destroyed by two car bombs in a central Nigeria...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's president pledged today to disband the coast guard amid mounting criticism of its failure to save hundreds of passengers trapped last ...

SAVASTEPE, Turkey — Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey’s worst mining disaster: company negligence. And he knows one other ...

President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attend the dedication of ...

Francis confirms it, slates beatification VATICAN CITY — Pope Paul VI, who did much to modernize the Roman Catholic Church but pronounced a ban on artificial contraceptio...

276 were kidnapped from Nigerian school ABUJA, Nigeria — A Nigerian government official said “all options are open” in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls f...

Search for girls, Boko Haram continues LAGOS, Nigeria — The effort to rescue the 276 schoolgirls believed to be captives of Islamic extremists in northeastern Nigeria was...

ISTANBUL — Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians, says a meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem this month will help move the two churches c...